Charles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: Charles Bailey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: > I was uneasy about the current time and proces status stuff, but was
: > willing to bullied into it partly because it's mostly hidden and partly because
: > the vmsish pragma provided an easy way to back out.
:
: Well, we now have (for VMS 7+) unixish times from the CRTL, including
: TZ support; and paths for looking for commands. No doubt more unixish
I'm all for this, as long as it supplements, rather than replaces, existing
"vmsish" features. I'd like Perl to go in the same direction: the more it's
bilingual, the better, as long as it doesn't forget either or produce
confusion.
: instead of descriptors?)....I expect to see piping and i/o redirection
: on the command line soon, if it hasn't been added already.
It's in there (as of 6.2, I think); see the DCL PIPE command (their way
of making it backwards-compatible).
: What we *really* need is a more complete set of VMS::* modules for
: handling system services....stuff like full-blown handling of
: logicals, RMS calls, locking, message fetching (hint hint) etc. I
: think that will help Perl be a real part of VMS much more than
: currently.
Definitely. This'll also take us into inner-mode code in several places,
and it'd be nice to figure out a good way to make that routine, too.
: Well CPAN.PM *has* gotten much better WRT using portable utilies...not
: because of us, but rather because of Win32 and Mac users. I'm hacking
Andreas Koenig has always been conscientious about protability, too, and that's
been ahuge help with MakeMaker; I'm not surprised it's rolling over into
CPAN.pm.
Regards,
Charles Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
